Helena Mierzejewska

Helena was my grandmother. She was born in Borowcze, Poland about 1889. All I know about Helena is her life here in the States and that her maiden name was Mierzejewska, although she was most likely unrelated to her husband, Wladyslaw.

Helena was the third child of the four known children of Stanislaw Mierzejewski and Anna Keijewska. Her siblings were:

Wladyslaw and Helena traveled back to Poland in 1927 in order to visit one of their parents in Kaczyny, Poland. This is a fact to be followed up in the future to see if it relates to a date of death or other event in the family. Unfortunately, I do not know yet whose father they went to visit. However, they were in Poland for quite sometime. The manifest indicates that the ship sailed from Havre, France September 14, 1927 and arrived in New York on September 21, 1927. Looking closely at the manifest, it indicates that Wladyslaw’s immigration visa #NQ311 was issued at Warsaw on July 6, 1927 but Helena’s (her name is noted at Bronislawa–the Polish name) immigration visa #NQ726 was issued at Warsaw on August 23, 1927. So, there was about eight weeks between the time they each obtained their visas to return to the US and this doesn’t consider when they arrived in Poland. Oddly, the children did not travel with them to Poland.

I have very little knowledge of my grandmother’s life other than this. She passed away on May 7, 1959, about two months after her son, Walter, Jr. passed away. I have not located an obituary for Helena yet. I do have her burial record from St. Hyacinth Parish and Calvary Cemetery. If you read the entire St. Hyacinth document, you’ll note that record #2 is her son, Walter. This branch of the family shortened their name to Myers.